An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5965-01-016-8491
NSN 5985-00-598-4707
NSN 5905-00-099-9995
NSN 5915-01-340-4592
NSN 5925-01-498-9068
NSN 5950-01-584-7656
NSN 6650-01-521-0670
NSN 5985-00-820-4526
NSN 6110-00-470-3871
NSN 6130-00-127-8270
NSN 5960-01-553-4557
NSN 5950-01-283-6119